Fugitive Ex-Security Chief Out of Election Race

The Supreme Court rejected ex-Security Minister of Georgia Igor Giorgadze, wanted by Georgia for masterminding car-bomb attack against Shevardnadze, to run for MP on November 2 parliamentary elections.

Last week the Central Election Commission has registered the list of candidates submitted by the Samshoblo (Fatherland) election bloc to contest the party list seats in parliamentary election, but struck from that list the name of Igor Giorgadze, who occupied first place.

The CEC last month annulled Giorgadze’s registration to run for the elections in a single-mandate constituency on the grounds that he has not lived in Georgia for past two years, as required by the law.

Igor Giorgadze is allegedly found a shelter in Russia after he fled Georgia in 1995, when he was accused of masterminding terrorist attack against Shevardnadze.